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herbert - 28 Jan 2006 23:28 GMT

What is the elegant way in VB.NET to check whether a windows service is
installed or not?

How does the service controller tell this?

thanks herbert

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Kevin Spencer - 29 Jan 2006 14:23 GMT

It's in the System Registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

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> What is the elegant way in VB.NET to check whether a windows service is
> installed or not?
>
> How does the service controller tell this?
>
> thanks herbert

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John Galt - 30 Jan 2006 02:09 GMT

Imports System.ServiceProcess

Module Module1

Sub Main()

Dim services() As ServiceController =
ServiceController.GetServices()

For Each service As ServiceController In services

' Do comparison here to determine if service is installed

Next

End Sub

End Module

> What is the elegant way in VB.NET to check whether a windows service is
> installed or not?
>
> How does the service controller tell this?
>
> thanks herbert

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